On Sep 4, 11:43 pm, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > <a> > > <b att="atttag" content="b"> this is node b </b> > > <c> this is node c > > <d /> > > <e> this is node e </e> > > </c> > > <f> this is node f </f> > > </a> > > > I would want to print the following: > > > <a> > > <a> <b> > > <a> <b> text: this is node b > > <a> <c> > > <a> <c> text: this is node c > > <a> <c> <d> > > <a> <c> <e> > > <a> <c> <e> text: this is node e > > <a> <f> > > <a> <f> this is node f > > > Is there a simple way to do this? Any help would be appreciated. > > in stock ET, using a parent map is probably the easiest way to do this: > > http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm#accessing-parents > > that is, for a given ET structure "tree", you can do > > parent_map = dict((c, p) for p in tree.getiterator() for c in p) > > def get_parents(elem): > parents = [] > while 1: > elem = parent_map.get(elem) > if elem is None: > break > parents.append(elem) > return reversed(parents) > > for elem in tree.getiterator(): > print list(get_parents(elem)), elem > > </F>
Fantastic. Thank you very much, Fredrik! And thanks for ET! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
